In mid-May, I’m going to a business meeting in Amsterdam. The travel budget for this trip was just approved by management.
The week after that, I’m going to a family wedding in Maui.
I haven’t done much travelling in many months because of home obligations, so this will be a nice change.
The bad news is that the company will be conducting drug testing at the airport when you get home. 
Working on trips to Cyprus, Iran, Yemen and the US this year.
I’m planning for 10.5 months in East and Southeast Asia starting this summer. Here is my current itinerary:
Flying from NYC to Taipei, with a possible layover in Seoul for a quick visit.
Taiwan: 29 days, make my way counterclockwise around the island by train, bus and bicycle.
Fly from Taipei to Singapore
Singapore: 7 days, visit the zoo and enjoy the cuisine.
Malaysia: 20 days, travel up the western part of the peninsula.
Thailand: 43 days, check out a couple of islands, hang out in Bangkok, make my way to the north country and end with a half-day in Myanmar.
Laos: 30 days, starting in the north and hitting the major towns before doing some motorbiking and Mekong-lounging in the south.
Cambodia: 26 days, Angkor, Phnom Penh, hit the beach, spend a few days near the coast on the way to Vietnam.
Vietnam: 30 days, explore the Mekong Delta, Saigon, slowly make my way north to Hanoi, spend a week outside of the capital in the mountains and by the sea.
China (Mainland): 30 days in Guangxi / Guangdong
Macau & Hong Kong: 11 days
China (Mainland): 91 days, covering a lot of territory here, head west into the mountains of Yunnan, then backtrack and go to Guizhou, north to Chongqing, west to Sichuan, up to Shaanxi, east to Henan, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, north to Shandong, Tianjin, Beijing and Liaoning.
Flying back from Dalian or Beijing to NYC.
Possible extensions to this trip include Indonesia and Mongolia, but these seem to be too inconvenient to be worthwhile. If Kim Jong Ill kicks the bucket and things open up in North Korea, I’ll leave China early and spend a couple of weeks there! Unlikely, but it would be extremely interesting.
Peru for two weeks in July. I have never really travelled before and am SO excited!
Darn it, you stole my response! Oh well, I’m already there anyway.
To Brighton, England, to mooch off my husband’s company hotel room and his per diem (flight paid for on points accumulated on the company’s dime too!) while he works, and to party it up with a friend who just moved overseas. I intend to study during that time, as my final exams are right after I get back. We’ll see how well that goes!
Home!
Two years in China, two in Cameroon, and a measly month of time in America in between.
I’ll be out of here on the 14th of July. The bad news is I’ll only have a month in beautiful California before graduate school starts. But man, am I looking forward to it!
That’s amazing even sven, I remember your threads from when you were working the counter at the hotel in Santa Cruz. It seems like ages ago for me, can’t imagine how long ago it must seem for you.
I’m going to Thailand in the summer. I can’t wait.
ETA: By summer I mean December/January. Stupid northern and southern hemispheres, confusing everyone with their different seasons.
Long weekend in Antwerp (Belgium) in July for the tall ships race. Then a music festival or three in the summer, probably including Sziget (Budapest) in August, then possibly a trip to Vegas in September.
I go to Hong Kong in a week, and Taiwan at the end of the month. And if things work out with the new job (same company) I’ll be moving the whole family to Seattle next month. It will be my first time living in the US for 20 years and the first time ever for my wife and the bambinas
I was just going to go this way, is that OK with you?
I might be going to Makati, Philippines in June to train some new employees. If I do go, I get to stay in a five-star hotel. I’ll know for sure in a few weeks.
We’ll be taking a cruise to the Western Carribean sometime within the next year. We’ve never been on one before and I can’t hardly wait!
In July, I’m going with a friend on a road trip from Milwaukee to New England. We’ll stop at Niagara Falls, and spend time in New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia. On the way back, we’ll go through Montreal and Toronto, with time spent in each. I haven’t had a proper road trip in years, so I’m excited.
You can contact this company in Beijing to go to North Korea while Kim is still around.
I’m going to take my little one to school, then the oldest to work, then pick up the little one, take her to therapy, then pick up the oldest again.
Repeat five times a week until school’s out for summer. (Also Tuesday and Saturday taking the oldest to classes. Hope she gets a car soon.)
Over yonder.
May is a short trip to Albany to get sworn in, whee. I’m entertaining the idea of taking a rather long (multiple-day/multiple state) bicycle ride sometime this summer, but we’ll have to see; if I get selected as a super for the Opera, the rehearsal schedule might nix that.
… to find a new job. Anyone hiring?